Minecraft 1.20.3 patch notes: the Bat's new look

The biggest change is a redesign of how bats look, making them feel all the cuter as a result. Elsewhere, you can now store up to one stack of items in a decorated pot, but be careful, as they can be smashed if they’re hit with a projectile. There are a handful of minor tweaks too, like a new accessibility option to customize the main menu and a new sound effect for teleporting with an Ender Pearl.

The full patch notes are below:

Changes

• Decorated Pots can now store items, and can be smashed by projectiles
• When a player is blocking with a shield, the arm with the shield now follows the direction the player is looking at, when viewed from third-person perspective
• The Bat now has a new look
• Added an accessibility option that allows to hide the yellow splash texts in the main menu
• Added a recovery screen for worlds with missing data (for example, if saving failed due to an unexpected shutdown)
• Other minor tweaks

Decorated Pots

• Decorated Pots now store up to a single stack of items
• Hoppers, Droppers and Minecarts with Hoppers can now insert and/or extract items from Decorated Pots
• Comparators can now read the number of items in Decorated Pots
• Players can interact with Decorated Pots to insert items into them
• Decorated Pots have no GUI, and need to be broken to retrieve or discover their content by players
• Player interactions with Decorated Pots cause the Decorated Pot to wobble and trigger the vibration frequency of 11
• Decorated Pots can be smashed by projectiles which cause them to shatter and drop their content
• Decorated Pots now stack up to 64

Bat

• The Bat has an updated model, animations, and texture

Minor Tweaks

• Monster Spawner now renders their inner faces when looking inside
• Thrown Ender Pearls produce a teleportation sound on impact
• Small tweaks to the Telemetry Data Collection screen